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| List Price: $59.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (based on 84 reviews)
Sales Rank: 4
Category: Video Games
Publisher: Rockstar Games
Studio: Rockstar Games
Brand: Rockstar Games
Label: Rockstar Games
Format: Playstation
Platform: Playstation 3
ESRB: Mature
Media: Video Game
Autographed: 0
Memorabilia: 0
Batteries Included: 0
Age: 17 - 20 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 37011
UPC: 710425370113
EAN: 0710425370113
ASIN: B000HKP88C
Release Date: April 29, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Carry on the Grand Theft Auto tradition playing through the single player campaign as Niko Bellic | | • | Get cars and other modes of transportation anyway you can | | • | Interact with various colorful characters who give you various missions to engage in | | • | Engage in multiplayer challenges ranging from cover matches to shoot-outs | | • | Game Rated 'M' due to Intense Violence, Blood, Strong Language, Strong Sexual Content, Partial Nudity, Use of Drugs and Alcohol |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 79 more reviews...
Cousins, are you not having FUN? May 12, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
The top down GTAs were my favorite I dipped my toes into the other incarnations but tired of the shooting system. The newest entry fixes what I considered to be the weaker points of the franchise and evolves what a GTA gameplay experience can be. After many hours of straight mission runs and overall experimentation everywhere else this GTA will leave you out of breath. Just visually appealing enough with rare cross hatching graphics popping out on occasion, IV looks good but requires alot of BRIGHTNESS?CONTRAST manipulation during some of its exceptionaly darker corners and hours of day. The police pursuits and mayhem factor are much easier to control this time around and you will often find yourself escaping and finishing missions that older games would have had you replaying for days. The music is a nice varied lot as usual and a high point at moments when it meshes with the voice acting and SFX to perfection. The detail to player experience and ambiance is unparalled throughout other than the eventual repetition of the media on TV and Radio which is only a testament to how many hours your spending in LC, also no custom ST? The driving controls feel especially nice on the DUAL SHOCK 3 trigger buttons and the included Six Axis controls for HELICOPTER BIKE BOAT are another PS3 bonus and are tuned just right once you practice. When are games worth $60? When they are so rich with content and development that almost all those moments in every other game where you said " I wish I could try that" are fufilled.
***** I do not have my 60PS3 highspeed ready so I cannot vouch for the quality of the mutliplayer content which looks to outstanding if it runs.
My system has run this game perfectly other than one cutscene going mute.
 Keeps you coming back for more May 12, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
GTA IV is worth the hype in my book. It is similar to the other games in the series (not a bad thing), but the graphics are much improved and the acting/storyline are outstanding. The missions are fun, but if you get bored you can always grab a shotgun and raise hell at any moment. This game just feels big. I remember driving my car off the bridge into the water, crawling out the window, swimming around and just staring in awe at the night sky with the city glowing in the background. Just an all around amazing experience.
 Boring GAme May 11, 2008
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
I highly recommend that people rent this game before buying. I honestly dont get why its rated so high. I was so bored while playing this. The controls are difficult and when you walk the screen always jumps to the wrong direction. Fighting multiple opponents is so awkward. I stopped playing it because i was so bored. I first had to pick up some girl and take her bowling. Then after that i had to take my cousin to a strip club where you have to fight multiple opponents. It wasn't fun at all. It also froze on me a couple of times and I had to try to restart the ps3.
 Killing has never been more fun, driving however... May 11, 2008
This game is through and through GTA. Not much has changed since the last 2 installments of this game. There are many pros to this game; but a few major negatives keep this title from a 4 star rating (and FAR from the coveted 5 star[which is handed out like candy on Amazon]).
Pros:
-Graphics: Everything is relatively smooth, and there is little more satisfying than laying into a police cruiser full auto and watching the glass and shrapnel fly...mmmmm welcome the sweet embrace of death coppers!
-Decent gameplay improvements: like hitting something at an insane speed and being ejected from your car. I for one like the melee; it can be a bit slow but it requires more skill than previous GTA titles, which only required you to rapidly press one button completely annihilating your opponent. The auto aiming is much improved over the other titles as well, but just like the melee it takes awhile to get it down just right.
-The storyline: it's GTA, so of course it's going to be above par (or under par depending on how literal you take golf metaphors)
-AI: You mean to tell me the cops don't just wander into my every shot now? How will I ever get rid of these 3 stars? The AI is much improved. Cops and enemies actually duck and cover a hell of a lot better than they ever did. Cops are more patient at the lower wanted levels, and way more intelligent at the higher wanted levels. Over all decent improvements all around.
Cons:
-Is that a trash can or a person? Holy God this game is dark. I've read that a lot lately and it is so true. I understand that it is a more realistic feel, but if I walk down an ally in this game at night I can't tell where the hell I'm going. If I drive around during the day, and than hit a shady spot in the city I can't tell any details, I can hardly see cars 20 yards in front of me and forget identifying people on the sidewalk. Yes, my brightness has been turned all the way up (in game and on the TV) and it is still ungodly dark. This was ok after day 1 and 2, when I was still drooling over the awesomeness of GTA, but not so much now. It really detracts from gameplay and it is a constant nuisance to play when the game begins to go to night...that's usually a good time to go eat or play a game of pool or something that requires NO reaction time and NO need to see in front of your face. Really...its dark.
-Driving!!! Dear gentle Jesus is this game horrible when it comes to driving! Quick side bar, My number one all time favorite games are racing games: F1, Gran Torusimo, NASCAR, I love them all and consider myself VERY adept at driving. That being said... I understand you break for speed BEFORE you begin to turn, and you shouldn't be breaking while IN a turn(unless your trailbreaking which is a techniques for a much faster entry, with an exit that sometimes suffers...but it's GTA so I'm sure it's not THAT detailed) but cars in this game REFUSE to turn at like 35mph. you have to slow down to an insanely slow speed to actually corner. It's ok, it can be over looked...but now these cars NEVER flip. It's like playing a NASCAR video game on the PSX circa 1998. they bobble around from wheel to wheel, rest on their side, than slowly sit back up onto four wheels. What??!! GTA hasn't had driving physics that bad since GTA2 on the PC. if you land JUST right on your hood it will stay like that, but you will never corner hard enough, get T-boned hard enough, flip fast enough to not somehow magically land on your four wheels again...weird and awkward. I mean the driving just sucks, I miss the old auto cam that panned around with your car, but it's not that big of a deal because I prefer to drive in the "hood" view, so It's not that important to me, but why get rid of the auto cam? It's fairly impossible to shoot, break, and try and fumble with your camera when also fumbling through the turn. bottom line the driving physics are absolute garbage.
Those two reasons are why this game is not 4 stars. It really seems weak at first glance(trust me I know because I read all the reviews before I actually bought this game) but it hurts the gameplay severely. I mean when you get right down to the heart of it, you will spend 85% of your time in a car, so why such crappy driving physics. And seeing as half of the rest of that 15% will be at night, this equals weak sauce from Rockstar.
Now a quick defense on the 3 star and you can go out and buy this game shunning my every word. A 3 star review is NOT a bad thing, its above average. I for one think that there are very few things that deserve a 5 star (Gran Tourismo 4 and Battlefield 2 come to mind) Things that are really good deserve a 4, and things that you should own if it's up your ally deserve a 3. This is a 3 star game. I love the GTA series and do not regret buying this game a bit. If you liked ANY of the GTA games go out and pick this title up, you will love it. But I'm not about to say this game is great(4) or the best it can possibly be(5) because it isn't.
I've pulled the pin on my fire extinguisher, so flame on!
Great game, yes. Perfect, no. May 11, 2008
I don't know how some review sites can give this game a perfect 10 rating. It is a great game, but far from perfect. The PS3 version suffers from several technical problems that have been pointed out here ad nauseam. One patch has already been released, and hopefully future patches will fix the rest of the problems. As for the game itself, it's one of the best ever. It's definitely a solid "9", but far from a 10. If you can wait awhile and avoid the hype, you may be better off waiting until most of the major problems are fixed. Online play has been partially fixed, but it still isn't perfect.
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